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The interdisciplinary project "Cyber Echoes" analyses fan fiction, texts written by fans who use characters, places and themes from a source text, place them in a context they construct, and publish the texts on the Internet. One part of this project is linguistically oriented, and sets out to examine the language of a source text (a novel, a tv-series, a movie etc.) and the texts written by fans. This is where this paper is initiated. Is is also inspired by a Danish article by Scheuer (1995, english title: ‘His wife and her breasts’), who has made a quantitative study of the possessive pronouns in the dictionary "Den danske ordbog" (‘The Danish Dictionary’). What is interesting is of course not the pronouns themselfs, but rather what follows. "His" followed by a certain noun tells us something about male ownership, while what follows after "her" shows some relation between certain objects/ phenomena and women. While such a study can be interesting in itself, this paper aims to compare a source text – in this case Bridget Jones's diary by Helen Fielding – with some fantexts that take place in the Bridget Jones universe. The object of the study is the nouns that follow the possessive pronouns, and the focus is to detect similarities and differences in the texts with a gender aspect in mind.

The terminology used in definitions of different types of fixed expressions (such as idioms, locutions, proverbs etc.) is complex and sometimes ambiguous. Within the field of phraseology, it is therefore subject to discussion. This chapter deals with the complexity of the notion of non-compositionality. Non-compositionality is a criterion that often appears in definitions of fixed expressions. It will be shown that there are four dichotomies of particular interest within the very notion of non-compositionality. These dichotomies are: motivation/ non-motivation, transparency/opacity, analysability/unanalyzability and literal/figurative meaning. Other notions of relevance to non-compositionality, such as common meaning, prototypicality, salience and frequency as well as encyclopedic compositionality will also be described and problematized. Finally, the notions of partial compositionality, holistic or atomistic compositionality, and lexical content or grammatical form, all describing different aspects of compositionality, will be evoked, to further show the complexity of this criterion of fixedness.